Regal Holiday

I'm a bit muddled up today... what with it being the Queen's Birthday long weekend here and losing what seems like most of the weekend to sleep and blowing my nose, today feels like it's Monday when it's really Tuesday! At least I am feeling MUCH better than the last time I posted I got very little creating done over the weekend, and haven't had a chance to photograph what I did complete, so I thought I'd share with you another little Love Note I made last week.

For this card I moved on to the Rich Regals colour family. I have layered some Rose Red Prints paper onto the Whisper White Love Note, then stamped the Circle of Friendship sentiment in Elegant Eggplant and punched it out with the 1" circle punch. I then layered this on a 1 1/4" circle of Handsome Hunter, mounted it on the card front with a couple of dimensionals and simply tied some Whisper White taffeta ribbon around the top of the card (this card opens vertically).

Plum Boho Box

The third challenge for the Inklings cyberstamp the other night was to create a box that would fit the 3x3" Love Note cards and their envelopes. I based my box on Julie's tutorial, though made adjustments so I could use A4 cardstock. My box was made to coordinate with the Love Notes I shared with you earlier in the week. I used Certainly Celery for the base of my box and Perfect Plum for the lid, both with decorative panels of Pale Plum. I decorated the top with images stamped and punched out from the Wanted, Boho Backgrounds and Circle of Friendship sets and some Urban West white rubons that I applied to Bashful Blue cardstock and trimmed before mounting with some mini glue dots. The box is quite deep and would hold quite a few Love Notes no matter how lumpy you embellished them!

Card on a Card

This card uses much the same supplies as the lat few: Citcle of Friendship set, 1" circle punch, Perfect Plum ink, Certainly Celery Prints paper, Whisper White taffeta ribbon and dimensionals. This card is also the standard size, however I have used a Love Note on front of the card. Below you can see the Love Note open.
After stamping and punching out the Circle of Friendship image I mounted it to the cardfront using a dimensional and positioned it so it would hold the front flap of the Love Note closed, once again providing somewhere for an extra hidden message. The Celery Prints paper has been layered on Almost Amethyst cardstock, once again keeping it all in the Soft Subtles colour family.

eScape CASEing

Did you see the cute little cards on the SU! for the eScape promotion? I thought I'd have a go at making some slightly different ones. Both cards use Certainly Celery Prints paper, Whisper White cardstock, 1 1/4" and 1" circle punches, Whisper White taffeta ribbon and Perfect Plum ink. The first card I have mounted the Circle of Friendship image over a circle of Pretty In Pink cardstock and tied the ribbon in a bow. For a less girly version, the card below uses Bashful Blue cardstock and the ribbon has simple been tied in a knot.
Cute, aren't they? One stamp set, one colour family... and a whole heap of possibilities!

Envelopes and Scraps

For this card I have gone back to the standard size, but I have used a Love Notes envelope on the front of the card to create a pocket, giving you somewhere to hide an extra little message. As I started on this card I still had the scraps from the eScape cards on my table, and straight away I realised I could use them on this card. The scraps were adhered to the envelope, ribbon wrapped around and tied, and a notch cut out of the semi circle. I then layered some Whisper White onto a piece of Certainly Celery that was taller than the envelope, and slipped them inside. I stamped the Circle of Friendship image on Whisper White using Perfect Plum ink and once again punched it out with the 1" circle punch. I mounted it on a 1 1/4" circle of Pale Plum with a dimensional then positioned these so they'd line up with the half-circle Celery Prints scrap when the little card was in the envelope.

Looks Like Another Sketch Challenge

I managed to tackle another challenge over the weekend, this card being for Beate's WSC #50. This one was quite straight forward but I still felt the need to consult my 8 year old, Tiarna, about a few things. She certainly seems to have an eye for design and creativity... she confirmed my assessment of what to do and what not to do with this card ! The large Looks Like Spring flower was stamped on Very Vanilla cardstock using Close to Cocoa ink, with the second flower being stamped a second time to make it slightly darker (it's more noticeable in real life). Also on Very Vanilla cardstock I stamped one of the images from Circle of Friendship using Handsome Hunter ink. I punched this out with a 1" circle punch after punching out the center using a 1/2" circle punch. I cut the flowers out, layered them and stuck the inner circle on as the flower center. This was mounted onto a piece of Old Olive cardstock that had been stamped and sponged with Old Olive ink using a dimensional. The River Rock background has been stamped with both diamond images from Looks Like Spring, wrapped with Very Vanilla taffeta and Old Olive/River Rock ribbon from the Theater Ribbon Originals pack, and mounted to the Close To Cocoa card front. The outer section of the circle sentiment sits in place with a extra piece of Theater ribbon tied in the middle. The large flower piece has been layered over top with dimensionals (bet you didn't see that one coming!).